The Parish Council.
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Our Responsibilities
The principal responsibilities of Parish Councils include: Planning, highways, traffic, community safety, housing, street lighting, allotments, cemeteries, playing fields, community centers, litter, war memorials, seats and shelters and rights of way.
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What we do:
In the past year (1st April 2005 to 31st March 2006):
- We raised a precept of £ 8,650 or about £ 12.34 per household.
- We have examined about 50 planning applications and passed on our comments to East Dorset District Council.
- We have organised volunteers for litter collection in part of our area (mostly in and on the approaches to our villages.
- We have paid for new goal posts for Woodlands Village Green (which we rent from the Shaftesbury Estate) and also for new wooden dragons teeth around the edge of the green.
- We have made a substantial payment to assist in the repair of the pump house in Horton.
- We have also made payments to assist in the regular maintenance of the church yards and burial grounds and to some of the Village Halls in our Parish.
- We pay for grass cutting (Woodlands) and for street lighting (Wimborne St Giles).